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- E. TERRY. MUGILAGE BOTTLE.

.No. 519,051. Patented May 1, 1894.

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EUGENE TERRY, OF ITHAOA, NEW YORK, ASSIGNO R OF ONE-HALF TO BRADFORDALMY,-OF SAME PLACE.

MUCILAG E -BOTTLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 519,051, dated May 1,1894.

Application filed January 26,1894. Serial No. 498,126. (No model.)

T0 at whom it may concern:

Be it known that LEUGENE TERRY, of Ithaca, in the county of Tompkins, inthe State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements inMucilage-Bottles, of which the following, taken in connection with theaccompanying drawings, is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to certain improvements in mucilage bottles orholders provided with means for spreading or distributing the mucilage,and the object is to provide a distributer that will be more durable andefficient than those heretofore used. I-Ieretofore, brushes, sponges,rubber rolls or other flexible materials have been used with little orno success because they soon became gummed and clogged by the mucilage,and were rendered useless before the mucilage was entirely used fromthebottle. All flexible or soft rubber rolls are found to be worthlessafter a very short time and not only are they aifected by the mucilagebut by the air so that they become brittle and adhering to the sides ofthe cap and ears cannot be made to revolve even if considerable pressureor force is used. It will be obvious also, that the more pressure isused upon a rubber roll, that is pressure of a roll upon asurface uponwhich it is desirable to distribute mucilage,

the more the said roll will expand and bind.

upon the walls of the cap, making it utterly impossible to turn theroll. With my invention the distributor never becomes clogged to anyappreciable extent and no time is wasted in cleaning the roll every timeit is used, as it cleans itself, and, as I have demonstrated by use, anynumber of bottles of mucilage may be used without injuring or renderingthe distributor inoperative.

To this end my invention consists in the combination of amucilage holderand a roller of non-flexible material closing the mouth of said holder.

My invention consists in the combination of a mucilage holder and aroller closing the mouth of the holder the said mouth lying to one sideof the top of the holder.

My invention consists in certainother oombinations hereinafter describedand specifi- 5o 'cally set forth in the claims.

Referring to the drawings, Figure l is a side elevation of my invention.Fig. 2 is a View of the roll. Fig. 3 is a top plan view of Fig. 1, andFig. 4. is a side elevation of the holder and distributor in itsoperative position, the bottle or holding part forming the handle forthe operator as will be readily understood.

Referring specifically to the drawings, A is the bottle or holder forthe mucilage which maybe formed in any shape and of any suitablematerial, but preferably of glass because it is cheaper than most othermaterials.

B is a cap having preferably an elbow shape and provided at one end withthread which is pressed therein to correspond to thread on the neckofthe bottle. Theicap is made of thin metal and may be secured to theneck in any other suitable and well known manner desired. The elbowshaped cap is somewhat contracted toward its opposite end and theopening made square to receive and be closed by a metal roller 0 oraroller of some other hard or non-flexible material as hard rubber orfiber. The roller is provided with pintles c, c, which turn inperforations in the walls of the cap B. The periphery of the roller ispreferably milled diagonally so that it will feed evenly and will notslip upon the 8osurface without turning during distribution. The outerside b of the cap 13 may bemade either fiat or curved as shown by dottedlines in Fig. 1.

In Fig. 4: the cap Bis shown without thread. 8 5

When not in use, the bottle is designed to stand as shown in Fig. 1, butwhen in use, the bottle is grasped by the hand, held in the positionshown in Fig. 4 and moved to turn the roller upon the surface anddistribute o thereon the film of mucilage which automatically spreadsitself over the periphery of the roller while it is turned.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secureby Letters 9 5 Patent, is

1. The combination, in a mucilage holder, of a detachable cap, having anelbow bend and an opening at its end, the said opening mouth of themetallic cap and journaled in IQ being closed byaroller journaled in thewalls the walls thereof. thereof, whereby the mucilage is distributed Intestimony whereof I have hereunto when the device is in use,substantially as signed my name.

5 specified.

2. The combination of a mucilage holder, a EUGENE PERRY metallicelbow-shape cap secured to the neck \Vitnesses: of the holder, and anon-flexible roller, pro- JARED T. NEWMAN,

vided with a milled periphery, closing the ARTHUR G. MARION.

